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By Bob Rhubart on November 14, 2008 5:59 PM

A few weeks ago I referenced a couple of Joe McKendrick posts that mentioned a hot job market for IT architects, even in the face of a spreading economic malaise. (That's a French word that, roughly translated, means, "My 401k...

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IT Role (Inter)play

By Bob Rhubart on October 17, 2008 4:21 PM

A couple of months before the clock started ticking on Joe the Plumber's fifteen minutes of fame, Technology Edge blogger J Schwan used similarly named characters (Bob the Business Stakeholder, Pam the Project Manager, Art the Architect) to illustrate an...

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Upgrading an ACE

By Bob Rhubart on August 25, 2008 12:51 PM

Congratulations to ORCLVille's Floyd Teter on his promotion from Oracle ACE to Oracle ACE Director. Floyd says: I just received some great news from Oracle. I'll be movin' on up from my status as an Oracle ACE to become an...

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Waiting for a train: a.m. insight

By Bob Rhubart on August 19, 2008 11:20 AM

At 5:00 a.m. on any given morning, I'm in bed, curled into the fetal position, snoring slightly, and maybe drooling a little, with two hours to go before I rain down the first of a series of blows on...

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Gorbachev Under the Hood

By Bob Rhubart on August 18, 2008 10:11 AM

Architect ACE Alex Gorbachev  announced on Friday on his Pythian Group blog that he'll be presenting Under the Hood of Oracle Clusterware at Oracle OpenWorld 2008. According to the OOW site, Alex's session is scheduled for 1:00pm - 2:30pm...

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Communication 2.0 and the Art of Connection

By Bob Rhubart on August 15, 2008 3:23 PM

 Yesterday's post dealt with the relationship between architects and developers, and how that relationship can have an impact on the success of development projects.  Today I found a not-so-recent post on Bex Huff's blog that hits on a highly relevant...

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Architects and Developers: Part of a System

By Bob Rhubart on August 14, 2008 1:55 PM

I ran across UK-based site called Coding the Architecture that includes Mind the gap, an article that explores the relationship between developers and architects, and the perceived role of the architect:   Our industry has a love/hate relationship with the software...

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Nominate the ACE Faces

By Bob Rhubart on July 28, 2008 5:26 PM

One of the features of the now month-old Getting Started: Architects page on OTN is the list of more-or-less randomly chosen Oracle ACEs who, in a discussion on an Oracle Mix group, either identified themselves as architects, or were...

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Architectural tools

By Bob Rhubart on July 24, 2008 9:47 AM

Comparisons between physical architecture and digital architecture are inevitable. But in the first installment of a promised series of posts on the Approach Alliance blog, Mary Beijleveld offers a clear explanation of software architecture and the role of the architect,...

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